Now rare. [f. SMOCK sb.] A pale and smooth or effeminate face; a person having a face of this description.
1605. Chapman, All Fools, V. i. [Fortune gives] Some wealth without wit, some nor wit nor wealth, But good smocke-faces.
1696. Vanbrugh, Relapse, 1st Prol. Perhaps there’s not a smock-face here to-day But ’s bold as Cæsar to attack—a play.
1786. J. A. D., Pogonologia, 51. You pretty fellows of the present day,… and all you with smock-faces and weak nerves.
1820. W. Tooke, Lucian, I. 398. Who does that smock-face belong to there?
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., I. 354. Who could have expected it from that smock-face!
1874. Slang Dict., 298. Smock-face, a white delicate face,—a face without whiskers.
